COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 4

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE.

(United Press Association.)

SYDNEY, October 28.

Wheat: At country stations, ss; ex truck Sydney 5s 7id. Parcels arc dull at 5s 9d; bagged nominally 5s ltd to Gs. Flour: Local £l4 ss, for export £l2 5s f.o.b. Bran and pollard, £7 10s. Oats: Tasmanian and Algerian 5s 3d, white 4s lOd. Maize: Yellow ss. Potatoes: Tasmanian £G to £9 10s. Onions: Victorian £4 to £5 ss. ADELAIDE, October 23.

Wheat: Growers’ lots 5s sd, parcels nominally 5s Bid. Flour: Bakers’ lots £l4 2s 6d. Bran, £7 15s. Pollard, £7 7s Gd. Oats, 3s 6d. MELBOURNE, October '2B.

Wheat: Nominally 5s 10 Jd to 5s lid. Flour, £l3 10s to £l3 15s. Bran, £9 10s. Pollard, £8 ss. Oats: Milling 4s 9d to 4s lOd, feed 4s Bd. Barley: English 4s 7d to 4s 9d, Gape 4s 2d to 4s 3d. Potatoes, £7 Jos to £8 10s. Onions, £2 10s.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE. Wheat. —Fowl wheat is extremely firm and very little is now obtainable in Lhe south. There is either a shortage or else the holders are adopting a firm attitude, the result being that nothing can sell here at less than 8s Gd ex store. An Australian shipment should be here early in November to sell at about lhe same price. Oats and Chaff.—The weaker tone brought about by the breaking of the drought is becoming more pronounced, although it is very possibly due to the usual storage demands for wool in the south. This often helps to lower the market during the spring. B grade oats are selling quickly at 4s 4<l ex store, and best sotilhcrn chaff at £9 10s ex store.

Bran and Pollard. —The low price is causing both lines to move off fairly well, although as the season advances more buyers will doubtless find themselves able to do with smaller quantities.

Maize.—The market is very fully supplied from the coast, and consignments are realising 5s to 5s 3d on the wharf, according to quality. The condition has been most disappointing this season, the wet autumn preventing the grain from assuming the hard and dry condition which usually prevails before this time of the year. Potatoes.—Local stocks are extremely light. The demand has been exceptionally heavy, and available supplies have run so iow that merchants will find difficulty in filling orders. The price is unchanged at the low level ruling in lhe south, and large purchases have been made at these rates. Business continued at £6 15s to £7 while stocks lasted, but the market has since assumed a firmer tone, and buyers are glad to book to arrive at £0 15s ex wharf. New potatoes are selling at 3d wholesale for good quality. Onions.—Normal sales are taking place in Canadian and Californian onions, the high price cheeking any exceptionally heavy demand, especially when other vegetables are so plentiful and cheap.

Grass Seed.—Any little demand for grass and clover seed this year is being supplied later than usual, as the farmers could not get their land into suitable order, while the heavy rain continued.

Eggs.—Unchanged at Is 6d retail for duck eggs and Is 8d for lien eggs. Any change seems likely to be upward.

TALLOW SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Hamilton, has received the following cablegram from its London house, under date October 2G : Tallow.—We quote present c.i.f. and c. values for the following descriptions of tallow:—Fine mutton 38s per cwt, good beef 40s, mixed 38s Gd; market firmer. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house, dated October 2G:— Tallow.—looo casks of tallow were offered and 50 per cent, sold; mixed good unchanged; other descriptions Gd higher.

TE AWAIYIUTU SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Hamilton, report: At Te AwarnuLu sale we submitted a full yarding of cattle, sheep and pigs. Good competition ruled throughout for all stock, which sold at the following rates: —Fat steers £9 5s to £lO, light £G to £6 10s, prime young fat cows and heifers £G 15s to £B, medium £5 12s Gd to £G 10s, plain fat cows £4 12s Gd to £5 7s Gd, cows in forward condition £3 10s to £4 Bs, store cows £2 10s to £3 ss, aged and rough store cows £1 14s to £2 Gs, two-year-old steers £4 to £4 7s Gd, 15-monlhs-old S.H. steers £3 to £3 7s, small £2 7s to £2 10s, choice yearling Jersey heifers £5 15s to £7, Jersey-cross heifers £4 7s Gd to £4 16s, small £2 10s to £3, dairy heifers close to profit £7 10s to £9 15s .others £5 to £G 10s, cows up to £lO ss, hulls £4 15s to £lO, fat hoggets £1 9s to £1 10s 3d, good ra.s. store hoggets £i 8s Id, small £1 Is, fat porkers £2 2s to £2 7s, store porkers £1 10s to £i 10s, slips £1 3s to £1 7s, weaners 10s lo 16s.

PIRONGIA SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Hamilton, report: Wc held a sale at Plrongia, when a good entry came forward, and Prices realised were quite on a’ par with those ruling at other centres. We quote: Killable cows £4 12s to £5 15s, cows in fresh to forward condition £3 8s to £4 ss, store cows £2 to £3 3s yearling steers, mixed colours £i 16s to £2 10s, yearling Jersey cross and S.H. heifers £2 2s to £3 10s, heifers at profit £G 15s to £7 10s, backward £3 17s Gd to £4 15s, dairy cows £5 to £7 10s, ewes and lambs £1 13 S , store ewes £1 Is, store hoggets £1 ss’cd.